1901 – Design for Municipal Buildings, South Shields, Tyne and Wear

“The drawing herewith illustrated is at the Royal Academy Exhibition. In dealing with the site at the disposal of the competitors, the building with its principal frontage is placed facing Westoe-road, and is set back from the street line with the corner to Broughton-road rounded off, in order to obtain as imposing a view as possible. The principal entrance is on the Westoe-road front, and two working entrances have been placed on Ogle- terrace and Broughton-road respectively, and the main portal has been so arranged that it can he used in connection with the council- chamber and committee-rooms, without interooms, accommodation for carts, messroom for men completed by the council, and caretaker’s lodge. It is intended to erect the building of red Lincolnshire bricks, the roofs being covered with tiles or green Westmoreland slates: part of the two principal fronts are to be covered with stucco.”